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The Man Who Invented Christmas

20171h 45mDrama · History · Comedy · Family
directed by Bharat Nalluri

“How Charles Dickens wrote “A Christmas Carol” and created a tradition.”

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6.8 / 10
874 votes
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7 / 10
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60 / 100
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79%

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Synopsis

In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.

Cast

Dan Stevens·Charles Dickens
Christopher Plummer·Scrooge
Jonathan Pryce·Mr. John Dickens
Justin Edwards·John Forster / Ghost of Christmas Present
Morfydd Clark·Kate Dickens
Donald Sumpter·Haddock / Ghost of Marley
Miles Jupp·Thackeray
Simon Callow·Leech
Miriam Margolyes·Mrs. Fisk
Ian McNeice·Chapman